The science of eating E-Book

ALFRED W. McCANN

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

In this revised and enlarged edition, the author has incorporated a schedule of ideal food combinations for children over the age of three years. These suggestions may be used as meals for the entire family with such additions or deductions as season or inclination may decide. He holds that the true conditions now so completely hidden from the public view and so rarely referred to in the public press must be exposed in order that the public, guided by the dictates of common sense and an adequate realization of economic facts concerning the food supply of America, may successfully wage war against abuses which threaten the very foundations of national health and prosperity.

Leseprobe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ONE: THE HUMAN SCRAP HEAP IS PILING HIGHER

- I God Has Prescribed

- II Food for Health or Disease?

- III The World Faces a Rebirth

- IV Meaningless Phrases

- V Approaching Reform

- VI Red Blood Depends on Food

- VII Food Calcium and Tuberculosis

- VIII Denatured Foods Destroy Life

- IX Human Variations of a Divine Theme

- X Natural Immunity versus Business

- XI The Neglected Child of 1912 the Soldier of 1918

- XII What Our Teeth Disclose

- XIII Why Have a Six-year Molar?

- XIV "Dust Thou Art and Unto Dust Thou Shalt Return"

TWO: TWO KINDS OF FOOD— THE CONSTRUCTIVE— THE DESTRUCTIVE

- XV More Precious than Silver and Gold

- XVI The Influence of Earth Salts on Life

- XVII Old at Twenty-five, Young at Sixty

- XVIII The Human Body

- XIX Breaking It Down

- XX Subtle Activity of Mineral Salts

- XXI Construction Within, Destruction Without

- XXII Food Minerals Essential to Life

- XXIII The Thyroid Gland a Poison Destroyer

- XXIV Commercialism Disarms Nature

- XXV Wonders of Plant and Animal Life

- XXVI The "Ash" OF Food

- XXVII Calcium in the Living Body

- XXVIII Children Suffer, Prospective Mothers Decline

- XXIX Add Art and Subtract Nature

- XXX Walking with a Broken Staff

- XXXI "Digestibility" and "Indigestibility"

- XXXII Constipation

- XXXIII Suspected Causes of Cancer

THREE: WHY MODERN REFINING PROCESSES ARE MORE DEADLY THAN WAR

- XXXIV Corn Meal or Cornless Meal

- XXXV Anemia, Tuberculosis, Heart Disease

- XXXVI Rejected Food Minerals A Mountain of Folly

- XXXVII Outer Parts of the Grains and the Nervous System

- XXXVIII Stunting the Growth OF THE Young

- XXXIX Increased Consumption of Meat

- XL Rice, Scoured and Polished

- XLI Natural Brown Rice

- XLII A Spoonful of Gravy

- XLIII Medicines Added to Sugar and Starch

- XLIV Bases and Acids in Food

- XLV Calories AND "Science"

- XLVI Calories and Gasoline

- XLVII Acid Formers and Females

- XLVIII Salt Intake and Output

- XLIX Maternity and Tuberculosis

- L The Advertising Agency

- LI Cow Feed, Horse Feed, and Food

FOUR: EIGHT POISON SQUADS THAT CRY FOR ACTION

- LII The Madeira-Mamore Case

- LIII Spurning Monkey Food

- LIV Sherman, Forbes, Hart, Maxwell, Steinitz, Zadic, Lelpziger, Rohman, Gumpert, Ehrstrom, Mettler, Sinclair, Voit

- LV Elizabeth County Jail

- LVI The British Steamer "Dewa"

- LVII The Mississippi Penitentiary Poison Squad

- LVIII Watery Tissues of the Hog, Pasty Complexion of the Human

- LIX The "Kronprinz Wilhelm" Poison Squad

- LX Two Hundred and Fifty-five Days!

- LXI American Meals

- LXII German Results

- LXIII The "Kronprinz Wilhelm" Cure

- LXIV The Height of Children Cut Down

- LXV Donald B. McMillan's Food

FIVE: AMAZING CONFUSION OF CLINIC AND CLASS ROOM

- LXVI Ignoring the Commonplace

- LXVII Hutchinson's Teaspoon

- LXVIII Strange Conclusions of Lusk

- LXIX Disease Germs Bad Where They Do Not Belong

- LXX Ailing Instructors in "Isms" and "Ologies"

- LXXI Thin-haired Women and Bald-headed Men

- LXXII A Pretty Test

- LXXIII Experiments with Chickens for Boys and Girls

- LXXIV What the Children Will Learn

SIX: HOW "BUSINESS" MUZZLES TRUTH

- LXXV "Unsound Flour" Even Though White

- LXXVI Bleached Flour

- LXXVII The "Mixed Flour" Evil

- LXXVIII The Devitalized Five-cent Loaf

- LXXIX A Paid Advertisement

- LXXXI Imitation Graham

- LXXXII Physicians Seek in Vain

- LXXXIII Dollars Dictate to Science

- LXXXV More Testimony

- LXXXVI Courage of Senior Surgeon Banks

- LXXXVII The Trade Challenge Trade Lies

- LXXXVIII Calcutta and the Rice Plague

- LXXXIX A Paradox

SEVEN: WHY FAMINE FOLLOWS THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL SUGAR

- XC Old Brown Sugar

- XCI New White Sugar

- XCII Sugaritis

- XCIII The Honey Bee

- XCIV Honey

- XCV Glucose

- XCVI Glucositis

- XCVII Why the Excess

- XCVIII Can We Ignore This?

- XCIX Infantile Paralysis

EIGHT: PREVENTABLE TRAGEDIES OF MILK AND MEAT

- CII Not Pasteurized

- CIII " Plugging " the Cow

- CIV The Certified Herd

- CV Old Offenders

- CVI America's Kidneycides

- CVII Meatology

- CVIII Old when Tired

- CIX Food and Fatigue

- CX The End of Fatigue

NINE: WHAT THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW OF THE MYSTERIES OF FOOD

- CXI Iron and the Raisin

- CXIII Potatoes, Parsnips, Carrots and Turnips

- CXIV Fruit

- CXV Sulphurous Acid

- CXVI "Chops" Waste and Jelly

- CXVII Molasses and Cane Syrup

- CXVIII Rots and Spots

- CXIX Bakery Wonders

- CXX Shortening with Petroleum

- CXXI Labels and Standards

- CXXII Standards and Labels

- CXXIII Cheating Cattle

- CXXIV Pasteur and God

- CXXV Whence Came Life?

- CXXVI Patriotism

TEN: IDEALLY BALANCED MENUS

- CXXVII Getting the Child Started

- CXXVIII Observations on Breakfast Menus

- CXXIX Dinner Menus

- CXXX Observations on Dinner Menus

- CXXXI The Evening Lunch or Supper

- CXXXII The Grocery of the Future

THE SCIENCE OF EATING

HOW TO INSURE STAMINA, ENDURANCE, VIGOR, STRENGTH AND HEALTH IN INFANCY, YOUTH AND AGE

BY

ALFRED W. McCANN

First digital edition 2017 by David De Angelis

Three men stood by unfalteringly when powerful and vindictive interests threatened by open and covert attack, by arrest, by civil and criminal action to destroy the writer. The courage of these men during a long period of determined struggle against wide-spread evils, before unexpected financial success had dulled

the edge of their valor and substituted a policy of prudent conservatism and compromise for the lofty pubHc spirit that once animated and dominated them, has made this book possible.

To the spirit of a past that still clings lovingly to hosts of thrilling memories I dedicate it with an affection not unmixed with sadness. There is something pathetic, something tragic in the altered circumstances that now make it impossible for them and me together to ever again pour into any one task in behalf of humanity the sustained effort, the overflowing and unstinted measure of energy and devotion, the solemnized and consecrated will to be right at any cost that have resulted in this volume of truths suppressed too long.

The dark and sinister shadows have been penetrated. They lie behind. That we shall not enter them again is but a reminder that all things pass. Our many battles in the courts and outside of them have been won, but even in the hazards we escaped there lurks a sense of loss. We are not to meet them again.

PREFACE

The author has acquired his knowledge of food conditions in America through years of service "on the inside," behind the screens. For five years during the period of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's service as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Mr. Mc-Cann's activities were largely confined to a laboratory under the roof of a modem food factory. His constant daily associates were federal, state and municipal food inspectors, chemists connected with federal and state departments of agriculture, food manufacturers, importers, jobbers and commission men.

As the advertising manager of a food business, handling prepared foodstuffs to the extent of $12,000,000 a year, he learned that no food reform can come through advertising as now conducted. "The advertising manager," he declares, "cannot state the whole truth in a food advertising campaign for the reason that the manufacturers insist that their advertisements shall center about the talking points that will sell their products, always keeping clear of controversy. The chief function of the advertising manager is not to educate the masses but to popularize the product he is paid to exploit."

Following his graduation from the food industry, Mr. McCann received the support of a New York newspaper, The Globe, which equipped him with a laboratory and set him free to report the results of his discoveries without regard to their influence upon the Advertising Department.

Subsequently forty-one other newspapers in as many cities of the United States took up his work, but so heavy was the pressure applied by advertising agencies that the publishers of all these papers, with one exception, the Chicago Daily News, found themselves compelled to discontinue his exposures. In this respect the photographs of original documents showing how truth is suppressed in daily journals, weekly periodicals and monthly magazines are in Mr. McCann's possession, a fitting justification in these days of "regeneration" and "reconstruction" for a Congressional inquiry into the nature of the silent influences at work to muzzle the press.

During Mr. McCann's service on the New York Globe he has been made a deputy health commissioner by five municipalities, has been employed by as many mayors and police commissioners to make surveys of the food conditions obtaining in the communities represented by them. He has led squads of plain clothes men and trained field agents, including attorneys and physicians, upon raids that have resulted in scores of indictments, trials and convictions in municipal, state and federal district courts.

He has been used as a witness by the U. S. Department of Justice in interstate conspiracy prosecutions; by the Attorney General of New York State; by the District Attorney of New York County; by the Corporation Counsel of New York City; and by other public prosecutors.

He has been arrested on charges of criminal assault and upon trial in a hostile court has been acquitted. On numerous occasions he has been tried on charges of criminal libel from which he has always emerged the victor. He has been held for grand juries on charges of criminal conspiracy but the cases against him, when submitted to the grand jurors, have always been dismissed. He has initiated two hundred and six successful prosecutions of food adulterators and has never lost a case.

As a result of his vast experience he no longer looks to commercial publicity or to legislation as a means through which to bring about food reform in America. Most of the conditions described in this work are now known to the various state legislative bodies but all efforts to influence the enactment of adequate laws covering' the abuses described have thus far been defeated.

In Mr. McCann's opinion, it will be a long time before Congress will successfully grapple with the facts which he now outlines in detail. It is his belief that the work must be done in the schools, that our American children must be taught the meaning of depraved foods, that they must learn how foods are processed, bleached, colored, sifted, bolted, denatured, degerminated, demineralized, chemically treated and refined ; that they must be taught the relationship of foodless food to sickness and death ; that they must be taught the relationship of natural food to health and life.

In this revised and enlarged edition, the author has incorporated a schedule of ideal food combinations for children over the age of three years. These suggestions may be used as meals for the entire family with such additions or deductions as season or inclination may decide.

He holds that the true conditions now so completely hidden from the public view and so rarely referred to in the public press must be exposed in order that the public, guided by the dictates of common sense and an adequate realization of economic facts concerning the food supply of America, may successfully wage war against abuses which threaten the very foundations of national health and prosperity.

ONE: THE HUMAN SCRAP HEAP IS PILING HIGHER

- § 1 — GOD HAS PRESCRIBED

Is there any evidence that will stand the scrutiny of modern judge and jury, to indicate that God has prescribed a formula for the nourishment of the human family?

There is. We shall see it in all its wonder. Does this formula, endow human nature with disease-resisting vitality ?

Does it fortify the prospective mother against the ravages so often suffered by her ?

Does it protect the infant and control the development of the child?

Does it usher the adult uneventfully into the shadows of age ?

Does it stand on guard to protect men of good- will, their wives and children, against the assaults of those malign forces which seemingly, as if man were completely abandoned to the malicious whims of a superior but malevolent power, attack him from all sides?

The imperious answer is "Yes." The Twentieth Century laboratory, which has nothing to do with the spiritual nature of man, is witness to the truth.

When man's house is built its wonderfully organised inmate is constantly wearing and wasting away. Repair is necessary ; incessant, never-ending repair.

The repair materials are at hand. They are found nowhere but in food, in food alone.

No officer tolerates an unfit soldier. No business man tolerates an inefficient employe. No musician tolerates a jarring note.

No physician tolerates incompatibles in his prescriptions, but in twenty-million homes in the United States to-day there is complacent toleration for food abuses that sap the stamina of the race.

These abuses, despite what is now known of them as a result of government research, parade the signatures of learned authorities, who sell their testimony for a fee, so that, as if by necromancy, the uninitiated may accept eminent names in lieu of missing elements in manipulated foods. Upon those missing elements life itself depends.

To expose this disorder in all its deadly significance, specialized effort has been made for years, but until 191 2 little progress was recorded. Public utterances from the platform and through the press, including at one time, 1916-1917, as many as forty-one newspapers scattered throughout the largest cities of the country, were greeted in high places with lofty sarcasm, and swept aside by the authorities as unworthy of consideration. Finally with the aid of a great metropolitan journal came a long period of dragging the truth into the courts. During the years dating from January, 1913, to the middle of 1918, in Municipal, State and Federal District Courts, that journal, the New York Globe, was responsible for the conviction of three hundred food sophisticators who, prior to their prosecution, had been able to hide behind the screens erected by the authorities, all of whom denied that its "unsupported" charges were true.

The court records of these cases, without an exception, have withstood the scrutiny of judge and jury and the fruits of that long and costly struggle are now passed to the people.

We know to-day, apart from the mere frauds that tax the pocketbook but do not affect human health, that a hundred food evils of grave significance constitute many of the building materials upon which young America, as well as stricken Europe, depends for growth and sustenance, under the eyes of man-made law that does not interfere. Every pound of these food frauds is a pound of excess baggage borne by the growing child, the expectant mother and the invalid. Every pound of food juggled, changed, denatured or chemically treated is balanced by a pound of human flesh.